Duxbury firefighters free man trapped under tree

The Duxbury Fire Department posted a series of photographs on Twitter showing firefighters using airbags to free the man before preparing him to be loaded into the helicopter.

Patriot Ledger Staff

Duxbury firefighters called in a medical helicopter midday Friday as they worked to free a man who had been trapped under a large tree.

Capt. Rob Reardon said the 600-pound tree near Temple Street had fallen on the man, who is in his 50s, and pinned his leg. He said firefighter had to cut through brush covering the man and use airbags to lift the tree off of him.

Reardon said paramedics stabilized the man, who was alert, and brought him in an ambulance to the Keene Street ball fields, where a medical helicopter had landed. The man was flown to Beth Israel hospital in Boston.

Reardon said he did not know why the tree fell or what the man was doing in the area. He said a friend of the man had called 911 for help.